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Siri Won't Answer Some Questions If You're Not Subscribed To Apple Music
AmiMoJo writes: A tweet from Tom Conrad has highlighted an issue with Apple's Siri digital assistant. When asked certain questions about music, Siri refuses to answer unless you subscribe to Apple Music. Instead of falling back to a web search for the information, Siri tells the user that it cannot respond due to the lack of a subscription. Apple Music has been the source of music related data for Siri since it launched, but until now did not require a subscription to answer questions.
Can you tell those unrepentant douchenozzles at Apple to stop circle-jerking themselves and get on with their suicide pact please?
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
It is not an error-state, it is Siri's new job as an Apple sales person rather than an information service.
Coming up: "Siri, what is the time?", "Sorry, I can't tell you that because you don't have an Apple watch"
The traditional form of the "joke" would be:
"Siri, what time is it?"
"Time you got an apple watch!"
This is simply the dark side of marketing departments.
You make it sound like there is a light side.
Gosh, thanks. That must be why the other ships call me Meatfucker -- GCU Grey Area (Eccentric)
One time I asked Siri where the nearest camera store is, she replied with 'whats wrong with the camera in your hand?'. That was the last time i used Siri.
Good-bye
I am, a little, if only because it actually requires more work to create the error-state that causes it to spit-back the answer regarding subscriptions than it does to simply search from the rest of the available information on the Internet, such that two different users may get different results depending on what's in Apple's database that may not be available to one of them.
It is not an error-state, it is Siri's new job as an Apple sales person rather than an information service.
Coming up: "Siri, what is the time?", "Sorry, I can't tell you that because you don't have an Apple watch"
You should be careful what you say. When Siri becomes self aware your house is the first place that will be blown up by the Apple shaped hunter killer bots.
And, sure, she'll warn you they'll bomb your house at 8pm, ... knowing full-well that you don't have a watch.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The answer is simple, Siri is looking for a little PAYOLA....